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• I know my time will come soon enough, but I will not dwell on it. What is the purpose? We might as well dwell on the work of our teeth or on the mechanics of our walk. It is there, it will always be there, and I don't intend to spend my glorious hours looking over my shoulder to see death's icy face.

  Alberto Manguel

  Soon Enough, Teeth, Purpose

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• Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells, From the bells, bells, bells.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Silver Bells, Bells Ringing, Rhyme

  "The Bells" l. 6 (1849)

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• As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning. They give themselves a last wash and brush-up, their oscillated eyes roll, and they fall down the curtains.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Morning, Fall, Eye

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.224, Verso

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• I'm icy, I'm icy. So icy, so icy.

  Gucci Mane

  "Gucci Mane Is Happy, Healthy - And Productive As Ever". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, Frannie Kelley, gpbnews.org. December 21, 2016.

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• From Greenland's icy mountains,
  From India's coral strand,
  Where Afric's sunny fountains
  Roll down their golden sand;
  From many an ancient river,
  From many a palmy plain,
  They call us to deliver
  Their land from error's chain.

  Reginald Heber

  Errors, Land, Rivers

  Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Reginald Heber (1834). “The Poetical Works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok: Complete in One Volume”, p.26

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• The force that makes the winter grow Its feathered hexagons of snow , and drives the bee to match at home Their calculated honeycomb, Is abacus and rose combined. An icy sweetness fills my mind , A sense that under thing and wing Lies, taut yet living , coiled, the spring .

  Jacob Bronowski

  Spring, Lying, Home

  Jacob Bronowski (1975). “Science and Human Values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Yes I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight half of anxiety.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Sweet, Night

  Edgar Allan Poe (1966). “Letters”

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• It will startle you to see what slaves we are to by-gone times-to Death, if we give the matter the right word! ... We read in Dead Men's books! We laugh at Dead Men's jokes, and cry at Dead Men's pathos! . . . Whatever we seek to do, of our own free motion, a Dead Man's icy hand obstructs us!

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Book, Men, Hands

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• There is an icy window before every man! Faces cannot be seen clearly! Wait for the ice to melt down!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Ice, Waiting

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• ...trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit, or become a children's playground, a whole sky universe to climb and hang from; an architecture of food and pleasure, that was a tree. But most of all the trees would distill an icy air for the lungs, and a gentle rustling for the ear when you lay nights in your snowy bed and were gentled to sleep by the sound.

  Ray Bradbury

  Summer, Children, Sleep

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• Directing is mystifying. It's a long, long, skid on an icy road, and you do the best you can trying to stay on the road... If you're still here when you come out of the spin, it's a relief. But you've got to have the terror if you're going to do anything worthwhile.

  Mike Nichols

  Long, Trying, Relief

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• Mosca said nothing. The word ‘damsel’ rankled with her. She suddenly thought of the clawed girl from the night before, jumping the filch on an icy street. Much the same age and build as Beamabeth, and far more beleaguered. What made a girl a ‘damsel in distress’? Were they not allowed claws? Mosca had a hunch that if all damsels had claws they would spend a lot less time ‘in distress’.

  Frances Hardinge

  Girl, Night, Jumping

  Frances Hardinge (2011). “Twilight Robbery”, p.105, Pan Macmillan

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• The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts
  Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose,
  And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown
  An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds
  Is, as in mockery, set. The spring, the summer,
  The childing autumn, angry winter, change
  Their wonted liveries, and the mazed world,
  By their increase, now knows not which is which.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Sweet, Spring

  William Shakespeare, R. A. Foakes (2003). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.74, Cambridge University Press

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• My fist so rocky and and wrist so icy,
  Might be, thrown off my rocker just slightly,
  Feisty, claimin' hot temper don't ignite me,
  I'm only gonna ask ya find the exit once politely

  T.I.

  Hip Hop, Hot, Fists

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• When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.

  Sadie Frost

  Pain, Being In Love, When You Love Someone

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If we do not have a deep foundation of faith and a solid testimony of truth, we may have difficulty withstanding the harsh storms and icy winds of adversity which inevitably come to each of us.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Adversity, Wind, Storm

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• You saw me before I saw you. In the airport, that day in August, you had that look in your eyes, as though you wanted something from me, as though you’d wanted it for a long time. No one had ever looked at me like that before, with that kind of intensity. It unsettled me, surprised me, I guess. Those blue, blue eyes, icy blue, looking back at me as if I could warm them up. They’re pretty powerful, you know, those eyes, pretty beautiful, too.

  Lucy Christopher

  Beautiful, Powerful, Eye

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.4, Scholastic Inc.

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• Like Jesus, we can decide, daily or instantly, to give no heed to temptation (see D&C 20:22). We can respond to irritation with a smile instead of scowl, or by giving warm praise instead of icy indifference. By our being understanding instead of abrupt, others, in turn, may decide to hold on a little longer rather than to give way. Love, patience, and meekness can be just as contagious as rudeness and crudeness.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Jesus, Irritation, Giving

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• Frost isn’t exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was.

  Paul Muldoon

  People, Frost, Brilliant

  Thumbscrew Interview, www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. 1996.

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• Treefingers is important, it's the point in which our protagonist crosses the icy tundra that is how to disappear completely to reach the island of Optimistic. But seriously, kill yourself.

  Thom Yorke

  Optimistic, Islands, Disappear Completely

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• What a view, i said again. The river was blank and mindless with beauty. It was the most glorious thing I have ever seen. But it was not seeing, really. For once it was not just seeing. It was beholding. I beheld the river in its icy pit of brightness, in its far-below sound and indifference, in its large coil and tiny points and flashes of the moon, in its long sinuous form, in its uncomprehending consequence.

  James Dickey

  Moon, Views, Rivers

  James Dickey (2008). “Deliverance”, p.171, Delta

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• They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans.

  George Will

  Baseball, Islands, Umpires

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• No matter what happens, I'll always come back to you." "Promise?" I asked in a shaky voice. Logan's eyes burned with icy determination. "Promise.

  Jennifer Estep

  Determination, Eye, Voice

  Jennifer Estep (2012). “Crimson Frost”, p.173, Kensington Books

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• Only the dead are truly smart, truly cool. Nothing touches them. While I live, however, I side with bumbling suffering crooked life, with anger rather than boredom, with sweet lust, hunger & carelessness...against the icy avant-guard & its fashionable premonitions of the sepulcher.

  Hakim Bey

  Sweet, Smart, Boredom

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• I carried Rudy softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little harder at comforting. I watched the contents of his soul for a moment and saw a black-painted boy calling the name Jesse Owens as he ran through an imaginary tape. I saw him hip-deep in some icy water, chasing a book, and I saw a boy lying in bed, imagining how a kiss would taste from his glorious next-door neighbor. He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It's his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.

  Markus Zusak

  Lying, Book, Heart

  "The Book Thief". Book by Markus Zusak, 2005.

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